Matt 6:7 And when you pray do not keep babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard for their many words
Luke 6:12 One of those days Jebus went to a mountinside to pray, and spent the night praying to god.
Is this a condradiction?
2007-06-04 08:24:39 · 16 answers · asked by Jason Bourne 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-06-04 09:57:00 · answer #1 · answered by Gods child 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Matthew 6:7 Jesus was talking about the Pharisees. They would pray to impress others by long drawn out prayers. You are the contradiction. Thinking God hears those that have many words to say.
Luke 6:12 Jesus prayed in secret and had a relationship with God the Father he spend the night there in follow ship with his God. Sometimes when you love someone it may take all night to speak and be spoken too. God had things to tell him and he had things to tell God about life and people. About US.
He went often to gardens and mountainsides to pray,away from distractions. This is to tell us to do the same!
Read John 17. Take time to spell please!
2007-06-04 15:43:49 · answer #2 · answered by God is love. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would it be? Do you have any evidence that Jesus was "babbling" the same empty words over and over like a pagan (like the word "ohm" for example)?
Why is it a contradiction to state Jesus talked with God the Father all night? Apparently he had a lot to say.
I don't understand your point at all. I think that you are just being silly.
2007-06-04 15:29:15 · answer #3 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How is it a contradiction? Does the second passage say that Jesus spent the night mindlessly babbling like a pagan???
2007-06-04 15:37:19 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Notice in the first quote Christ says "When you pray". He is not saying not to pray, he is describing how to correctly pray. He uses the term "babbling" to describe how not to pray. Babbling is defined as
1. To utter a meaningless confusion of words or sounds:
2. To talk foolishly or idly; chatter
3. To blurt out impulsively; disclose without careful consideration.
Christ is advising his disciples that when they pray they should mean what they say, they should not foolishly blurt out whatever pops into their heads, they should instead consider carefully what they say to God. It is also important to listen to God when praying; in other words to silently wait for God's reply. Sometimes that reply is very quiet and if our mind is full of our own words we will miss it.
2007-06-04 15:38:48 · answer #5 · answered by morkie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The top verse is about making these fancy wordy prayers like a tele-evangelist that are just for show. When Jesus spent the night in prayer, he was praying to his father, not to impress anyone.
2007-06-04 15:29:42 · answer #6 · answered by comer59 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first refers to the practice of reciting the same short prayer over and over and over hundreds of time in the belief that the number of repeats will force God to answer.
The other refers to someone who had a lot of different things to talk about with God, and it took him a while to cover all the subjects they had to talk about, to get all the guidance he needed for the next few days, etc.
It is difference between a two years who follows your around the house all day going "why, "why", "why" and a time when you sit down with your spouse and spend several hours talking things out.
2007-06-04 15:31:40 · answer #7 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't even see the connection to where that would sound like a contradiction to you.
Praying a long prayer is not babbling
2007-06-04 15:29:21 · answer #8 · answered by kenny p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, by going to the mountainside Jesus was isolating himself from others. And I'm pretty sure He didn't babble when he prayed.
2007-06-04 15:29:44 · answer #9 · answered by Thom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read more of the surrounding texts in question.......no contradiction. The first textis about looking "like" you are holy to others. The second text is about having a personal relationship with God.
2007-06-04 15:28:57 · answer #10 · answered by Caesar Jeff 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, because Jesus wasn't "babbling", like saying a Novena or the Rosary. He was actually conversing with God.
2007-06-04 15:34:18 · answer #11 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋